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M. R. JEWELL.

SUSPENSION FILE BOX.

No. 380,490. Patented Apr.- 3, 1888.

UNITED STATES PATENT (lumen,

M. ROMEYN JEXVELL, OF ROCHESTER, NEWV YORK, ASSIGNOR TO THE SCHLIOHT 85 FIELD COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

SUSPENSION FILE-BOX.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 380,490, dated April 3, 1888.

Serial No. 244,407. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, M. ROMEYN JnwELL, of Rochester, in the county of Monroe and State of New York, have invented certain Improvements in Suspension File-Boxes, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to that class of fileboxes which are mountedin inclosing cases or cabinets and connected thereto by suspension devices of such character that when the box is drawn from the cabinet it is permitted to tip downward and maintained in position to permit convenient inspection of its contents, as represcnted,for example,i 11 Patent No. 340,094, granted on April 20, 1886, to XV. H. H. Glague.

The invention relates to an improved construction of the suspension devices, and has in view strength, durability, and cheapness of construction.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a perspective view of my file-box and receptacle, the box being shown in its open or extended position. Fig. 2 is a vertical section from front to rear on the line 1 l of Figs. 1 and 5, the box being in its closed position. Fig. 3 is a section on the same line with the box in its open position, showing one of the suspension devices contiguous thereto. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of one of the suspension-slides. Fig. 5 is a cross-section on the line 2 2 of Fig. 2.

A represents a case, cabinet, or receptacle, which may be of any form and construction adapted to inclose the file-box and to admit of its being withdrawn horizontally from the front. I prefer to construct the cabinet, as shown, with a series of pigeon-holes or compartments, each adapted to receive asingle box, each compartment having vertical side walls, horizontal bottom, and open front.

B represents a file-box consisting, as usual, of a base-board, a, a front board, I), erected thereon at the front end, and afollower-board, a, connected by clamping devices to the side guide or rods, d. The front board, I), is made of the full width of the compartment, in order that it may close the same; and the base-board is also constructed at its rear end of equal width, in order that it may bear against the side walls of the compartment, and thus guide the file as itmovesinto and out of the compartment. At its forward end, however, the base board is cut away at its sides and reduced in width, in order to afford room for theintroduction of suspension-slides 0, between its edges and the side walls of the compartment. These slides consist each, as shown in Fig. 4, of a flat strip of metal provided with two longitudinal slots, 6, and curled upward at the forward end to form a hook,f. They are mounted on the bottom of the compartment, one on each side of the file, and secured by screws 51, passing through their slots, the arrangement being such that they may be pushed backward wholly within the compartment and behind the front board, as shown in Fig. 2, or drawn forward, so as to project slightly beyond the compartment, as shown in Fig. 3.

On each side the base-board of the file is provided with a laterally-extending stud or pin, 2', overlying the corresponding slide G. The rear wide end of the baseboard is rabbeted longitudinally on the under side, as shown at k, in order that it may pass freely over the slides as the box is drawn forward. When the file is pushed to its place in the compartment, as shown in Fig. 2, the slides occupy the position shown in said figure, being wholly inclosed and concealed from sight. As the file is drawn forward, the studs 2 pass forward over the slides 0 until they encounter the hooks f at their forward ends, whereupon the slides are moved forward with the box until they are arrested by the screws 5 encountering the rear ends of the slides. This action prevents further movement of the box in an outward direction, but leaves the same supported by the studs or trunnions z, resting on the projected ends of the slides, so that when released it may tip in front of the cabinet and hang suspended therefrom in the position represented in Figs. 1 and 3.

It will be observed that my suspension devices are of extreme simplicity, that they are of such character as to admit of all the parts being readily produced by machinery, and that they permit the box to be readily unhoolred and removed, if required.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is- Ioo 1. The combination of the case or receptacle, the two slotted sliding bars provided with upturned hooked ends, screws passing through the slots in the bars and guiding and securing them to the bottom of the case, and the filebox provided with studs or trnnnions on its edges to engage the said hooked ends of the vided with slides, substantially as described, the file-box having the front board adapted to close the receptacle, and the base -board adapted at its rear end to bear against the side walls of the receptacle, reduced in width at its forward end to pass the slides, and provided with studs or journals to engage said slides.

4. In combination with the receptacle and the sliding plates therein, substantially as de scribed, the file-box having its under edges rabbeted to override the slides, and provided midway of its length, or thereabout, with the lateral studs or journals to engage the slides. In testimonywhereof I hereunto set my hand, this 7th day of July, 1887, in the presence of 55 two attesting witnesses.

M. ROMEYN JEWELL.

Witnesses: V F. B. HUTOHINSON, A. S. SMITH. 

